...First though a bit of housekeeping.
Just so you know, I don't actually use the make-up techniques featured
in the earlier posts. Despite the fact they have some efficacy at
fooling the camera they make you look like a moron to human observers on
the street. Better to just put on some glasses and blend into the
crowd.

Can you pick out the Kennedys in this photo?

Here's why we cared: There is big money in this stuff!!
From Bloomberg, April 8:

The
company, which specializes in systems that analyze faces and images on
an enormous scale, said it closed a Series C round in recent months in
which Singaporean state investment firm Temasek Holdings Pte and retailer Suning.com Co. also participated. SenseTime didn’t outline individual investments, but Alibaba was said to have sought the biggest stake in the three-year-old startup.

With the deal, SenseTime has doubled its valuation in a few months. Backed by Qualcomm Inc., it underscores its status as one of a crop of homegrown firms spearheading Beijing’s ambition to become the leader in AI by 2030.
And it’s a contributor to the world’s biggest system of surveillance:
if you’ve ever been photographed with a Chinese-made phone or walked the
streets of a Chinese city, chances are your face has been digitally
crunched by SenseTime software built into more than 100 million mobile
devices.

The latest financing will bankroll investments in parallel
fields such as autonomous driving and augmented reality, cover the
growing cost of AI talent and shore up its computing power. It’s
developing a service code-named “Viper” to parse data from thousands of
live camera feeds -- a platform it hopes will prove invaluable in mass
surveillance. And it’s already in talks to raise another round of funds
and targeting a valuation of more than $4.5 billion, according to people
familiar with the matter.

“We’re
going to explore several new strategic directions and that’s why we
shall spend more money on building infrastructure,” SenseTime co-founder
Xu Li said in an interview. The company turned profitable in 2017 and
wants to grow its workforce by a third to 2,000 by the end of this year.
“For the past three years the average revenue growth has been 400
percent.”...MUCH MORE

We'll be coming back to what has become a bit of an obsession on the
blog, and the countermeasures thereto, but for now, just some of the
applications. Remember, this isn't the state of the art, this is stuff
that is being deployed right now.
The state of the art is really spooky....